PINXTON NE 7 WOLLATON III 2

WOLLO TAKE SECOND HALF HAMMERING AT PINXTON

MAA Premier Division

Pinxton, Derbyshre. Saturday Feb 28th, 2009.

Team: Dale Webster, Sheldon Miller, Joe Lewis, Steve Burton, Rocky Bennett-Bull, Liam Hill, Micky Evans, Andy Creswell, Josh Slade, Nick Evans, Mark Middleton. Subs: Chris Fish, Dave Grantham (used). 

The least said about this game, the better. We took the quickest lead in Wollo Thirds history (and probably on MAA Division record this season), after netting in 12 seconds with a three man move straight from the quick off, with Mark weaving his way through the Pinxton half to play Nick in who side footed past their keeper from close range. It was a bit surreal as Pinxton hadn't even touched the ball and it seemed more like a practice move than the real thing, credit to our lads for being the first on their toes, leaving Pinxton flat footed. 

Then we went 2-0 up about 15 minutes later when Nick unleashed a trademark drive in off the post from an acute angle. Pinxton rallied a bit and started to show frustration by getting into the game, whilst their old school striker got stuck into our back four, displaying his old Vinny Jones party piece to Muller and later chucked a punch at Rocky, off the ball. Then the same player left his studs on Joe's shin with a late two footed challenge. The ref bottled it and gave him just a yellow card, begging the question 'what exactly do you have to do to see red?'. 

Pinxton got a goal back just before half time but there was no sign of the complete madness that was to follow in the second half, which saw six goals conceded by Wollo. 

In short, we failed to deal with Pinxton's long balls in Smithy's absence and we made some very silly mistakes to gift Pinxton most of their efforts. We could have had a couple ourselves, with a Nick piledriver hitting the underside of the bar and bouncing goalside of the line but the ref didn't spot it, like most incidents that afternoon, and Cressy had a storming effort saved which looked top corner bound. But it was a case of ifs, buts and maybes. In the end we were outfought though not necessarily outplayed, since Pinxton pumped the long ball all second half and did it with great effect. 

Man of the Match: Nobody.